Re: [Tack-devel] ACK compiles on NetBSD-macppc, sort of...

[Gregory T. (t. K. <gt...@di...>]

At 1:13 PM -0400 7/19/06, David Given wrote:
>> Ok. Is the new build generally self-contained and independent of the
>> POSIX platform it is running on? The current build appears to have
>> been able to build on BSD 4.1 and BSD 4.2, so while it hasn't yet run
>> successfully end-to-end, most of the problems just seem to be related to
>> the changes since BSD 4.2.
>
>It should be; it requires a C compiler called cc to bootstrap, but it
>should be pretty portable.
>
>(If you install the standalone copy of LLgen from the website --- which
>you'll need for the next version anyway --- that uses it. Rather
>overkill for such a small app, but I wanted to see how it worked in real
>life.)

If I download the standalone copy of LLgen, will building that give me a good overview of the new tree design?  Might make porting to NetBSD easier to sort out with a small tree.

>[...]
>>> make depend
>
>Running make directly doesn't appear to set the paths up correctly ---
>AFAIK, you have to run the INSTALL script every time you want to build
>something. I'm not sure if it's possible to do incremental builds.

Ugh.  Tends to make testing changes rather slow.

There are still some legitimate reasons to move do_deps/rm_deps/do_resolves to a variable format with a $(UTIL_BIN) path prefix.  On an installed world, UTIL_BIN might actually be /bin (eventually, but quite possibly on Minix).  

thanks,
tim

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